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Controlling which image appears in “thumbnail” after rendering
I’m not sure how to verbalize this. I want to select what initial picture appears on a video before you play it. Whenever I render a video, a seemingly random frame a short way in is selected to represent the video and it’s not the first frame. I need to choose the picture that you see on the video before it is played. Does that make sense?
Premiere Pro CS5.0 works great on my Dell Precision T5500/Windows 7 machine. I have no other complaints.
I’ve searched the forum and Google but not sure of keywords to use. I’ve studied the Lynda.com tuts and Premiere help files to no avail. I’ve searched through After Affects tuts to. Do I need to use Photoshop maybe? It seems like this should be an obvious choice when rendering.
Thanks,
Stuart -
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I believe you just play the file in the thumbnail view, and then when you get to the frame you want, stop. Right click the thumbnail, and choose “Set Poster Frame”.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Doesn’t have to be in Thumbnail view – just click on the clip you want to alter and the thumbnail will appear at the top of the bin – from there you can scrub or play to the frame you want and as Joseph says “righ-click” and set poster frame or click the little camera icon above the play button.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
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Thanks, I had forgotten about setting those thumbnails for clip. Very helpful.
But what I’m looking to set is the picture of the preview you see after the video is rendered. I tried setting the thumbnail for the sequence but after rendering and when I pull it up in Windows Explorer, a frame a few seconds into the finished video and not the one I picked appears in what I would call a preview. It shows that same (random?)frame when I upload to YouTube or the Patch.
It is not always a bad frame, but I would like to choose what people see before they click on my video. I’ve widen my search with the term “poster frame” but haven’t found an answer yet. I feel like I’m missing something fundamental here.
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In the sequence pane, put the scrub bar on the frame you want, then type the M key or click one of the “Add Marker (M)” buttons. If you set multiple markers, the Windows thumbnail for the movie will be the one from the first frame marker.
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I was wrong. Setting markers seemed to work for me twice, but not since then.
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